ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. “THE NIGHT CLUB” Raymond Griffith comes to the Opera House to-night featured with A era Reynolds, Wallace Beery and Louise Fazenda in the cast of the Paramount picture, “The Night Club,” a picturisation of William dcMiilc’s stage play, “After Five.” Paramount claims it 'to be funnier than “Miss Bluebeard” and “Forty Winks,” rolled into one. it’s an amusing story o± » confirmed woman-hater who has to marry a pretty girl to collect a fortune left him by his uncle. Jack Dempsey will be seen in another series of liis his popular serial, high, and Win.” OPERA HOUSE. “THE LOST WORLD.” Probably the most unusual love drama ever put on the screen is iho Lost World.” which comes to the Opera House on Thursday evening. The pmturc is an adaptation of Sir Aitiiui Conan Doyle’s novel of the same tit.c. Ho has painted a vivid word picture <>l a lost world in the vast, unexplored regions of the upper Amazon River which Time had forgot. There Doyle ;• band of adventurers found prehistoric monsters that roamed the earth 10,000 • 000 vears ago and battled each other to the death as in the days of old. Into the heart of this monster-infested district wont this party of explorers —three men and a girl. Their mission was to rescue her father, if he still lived, ar.d prove to the world the existence of the prehistoric beasts —the brontosaurus, bigger than ton elephants; the tyraunosaurus. most fearsome creature that ever stalked this earth; the stegosaurus, triceratops, the pterodactyl, or great, flying dragon, and other gigantic species. Numerous motion picture producers have tried in vain to film Doyle’s story, but the reincarnation of the monsters was deemed impossible. Finally, however, an embryo sculptor named Willis H. O’Brien “discovered” the monsters. He submitted his strange idea to Watterson R. Rothacker, owner of film laboratories in Chicago and L.s Angeles. Rothacker saw its possibilities, and, joining hands with First National Pictures, launched work on tho project. That was seven years ago. Since then work has proceeded steadily, and now the picture is complete. It establishes probably the record for time production in the film industry as well as a record for uniqueness. Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery and Lloyd Hughes head the cast. Supporting them are more than 2000 other players who participate in the huge scenes showing the return of the explorers to London.